We’re not going anywhere...The southern states were producing cotton that was being sent to Europe, who demanded a lot of it...it was also being tariffed and the southern states were not only paying the tariff but giving the northern states who were acting as “middlemen” in the sale enormous profit and they were not paying any part of the tariffs...The only way the south figured to make to best profit off their product was seccession and dealing with Europe themselves...As part of the US, they could not do this...
Do a little study yourself and you’ll find that there were MORE slaves owned in the northern states than is the south...Slavery became a big issue when Lincoln decided that would create diversion and division in the south...
Lincoln actually would like to have been able to ship slaves back to their homeland, but the northern owners would hear nothing of that....
I'd love to see corroboration of this claim!